“Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The success of Darwinism was accomplished by a decline in scientific integrity. — W. R. Thompson Copy Share Image
... no compelling data to support its anachronistic social Darwinism. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired.” — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
I'm all for teaching creation and allowing prayers in schools, as soon as scholars begin teaching Darwinism and geometry in church. — J. Michael Straczynski Copy Share Image
I have come to the conclusion that Darwinism is not a testable scientific theory, but a metaphysical research programme... — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“Darwinism is dynamic. It is about change, not stasis; about process, not pattern; about tales, not tableaux; about becoming, not being.” — Henry Gee Copy Share Image
“Origin of man now proved.—Metaphysics must flourish.—He who understands baboon would do more towards metaphysics than Locke.” — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Darwinism as presented by Darwin contradicted idealistic philosophy, and this contradiction grew deeper with the development of its materialist teaching. — Trofim Lysenko Copy Share Image
“Of all the problems which will have to be faced in the future, in my opinion, the most difficult will be those… — Leonard Darwin Copy Share Image
Since the universe is stupid, it's no wonder that social Darwinism tends to support, promote and finance the evolution of fools. — William C. Brown Copy Share Image
Scientists have long known that Darwinism is false. They have adhered to the myth out of self-interest and a zealous desire to… — Phillip E. Johnson Copy Share Image
“But then with me the horrid doubt always arises whether the convictions of man's mind, which has been developed from the mind… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The first point one has to get straight in discussions like this, is that ID is not the opposite of evolution. Rather,… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
Evolutionism as taught by Darwinism has nothing to say about how life originated. Has nothing to say about how the governing principles… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
“Life cannot have had a random beginning ... The trouble is that there are about 2000 enzymes, and the chance of obtaining… — Fred Hoyle Copy Share Image
“But then arises the doubt, can the mind of man, which has, as I fully believe been developed from a mind as… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The essence of Darwinism lies in its claim that natural selection creates the fit. Variation is ubiquitous and random in direction. It… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Carnegie believed in the survival of the fittest. He believed in Social Darwinism. He believed that you had to give an opportunity… — David Nasaw Copy Share Image
“I believe the defenders of intelligent design deserve our gratitude for challenging a scientific world view that owes some of the passion… — Thomas Nagel Copy Share Image
“But the very fact that Darwinism is true makes it even more important for us to fight against the naturally selfish and… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The positive evidence for Darwinism is confined to small-scale evolutionary changes like insects developing insecticide resistance…Evidence like that for insecticide resistance confirms… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“We can now assert with confidence that the theory that the Earth moves round the Sun not only is right for our… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Regardless of one's point of view, it's quite easy to see that Darwinism is not in the same league as the hard… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
Obviously there have been some very poor uses of evolution in the 20th century. Social Darwinism for instance and we point out… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
“For those scientists who take it seriously, Darwinian evolution has functioned more as a philosophical belief system than as a testable scientific… — James A. Shapiro Copy Share Image
Chronic sexual predators [to Vachss, pedophiles] have crossed an osmotic membrane. They can’t step back to the other side - our side.… — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
“Before you can ask 'Is Darwinian theory correct or not?', You have to ask the preliminary question 'Is it clear enough so… — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“To establish evolutionary interrelatedness invariably requires exhibiting similarities between organisms. Within Darwinism, there's only one way to connect such similarities, and that's… — William A. Dembski Copy Share Image
“I have a little urge to all the rational thinkers in the world, both scientists and non-scientists. Because of the fact that… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science.… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Here the contention is not just that the new Darwinian paradigm can help us realize whichever moral values we happen to choose.… — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
“[ Said during a debate when his opponent asserted that atheism and belief in evolution lead to Nazism :] Atheism by itself… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image